Best Preferred Poems

If I was ever to be blessed 
With the gift of an only child
And I was given the option 
To choose the sex also too
I would choose to have a baby girl

I know a Father is supposed to want a boy
A son to carry on...

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George judged 'the classics' pretty slim pickins
Reading them, his mood soured and sickened
   George much preferred trash
   Which cost little cash
Then he tried Shakespeare ~ said, 'What the Dickens!'...

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Cogito, ergo sum
      His thoughts are a-bloom

    He thinks, therefore he is
      He feels his brain a-whizzz... 

    Yet an attitude of gratitude
      is...

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Sue outshone her brother Lee
He was a druggie, liar, thief, a never-do-well
Sue was an occupational therapist
a wife, a mother, an outstanding citizen

Their mother put Lee on the highest pedestal
making up fraudulent accomplishments for him
and excuses when he was popped into jail
it was always a misunderstanding

Sue...

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Stillness as potentiality poised in silence
Or action kinetic in desireless nonchalance 

In meditation do we dwell in emptiness 
Or celebrate bliss throb rapture in fullness 

Do we calibrate experience by memory imagery
Or are we unfettered and spontaneous in our entrée 

Is our practice a discipline...

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Pickle brine
Not so fine,
Blackberry wine
When I dine.

written March 7, 2022
for absolute, pure fun!...

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